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Sudan's ousted prime minister, Abdalla Hamdok, has been reinstated following last month's coup when he was put under house arrest. He has appeared on TV to sign a new power-sharing agreement with coup leader Gen Abdel Fattah al-Burhan amid continuing protests.

Under the deal Mr.Hamdok is reinstated as prime minister at the head of an independent cabinet of technocrats. Both men insist that the power sharing transition to civilian rule agreed in 2019 is back on course, but the civilian coalition that nominated Mr Hamdok as PM two years ago refused to acknowledge any new deal.

A pro-democracy activist Shaheen Al Shareef who has been at the protests in Khartoum says that they will not accept the deal as they fear that it has only consolidated the influence of the military, and that they want the military totally removed from government.

Photo: Prime Minister Hamadok and Sudan's top military lieutenant General Burhan sign a political agreement, 21 November 2021 Credit: EPA